Surti Narayan Mani Tripathi

Surti Narayan Mani Tripathi, also known as S.N.M. Tripathi and Pandit Tripathi (1900–1988), was an Indian civil servant and later a politician from Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. He was the first ICS of Uttar Pradesh and the founder president of Gorakhpur University. He served as a Member of the Legislative Council from Uttar Pradesh twice, first from 1967 to 1968 and in the second term from 1974 to 1977. He served as the Vice Chancellor of Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya and played an important role in establishment of Gorakhpur University. He then served as Senior Deputy Managing Director and Vice Chairman of the British India Corporation in Kanpur. In 1962, he was appointed Vice Chancellor of Sampurnanand Sanskrit University in Varanasi.

Politics In June 1966, SNM Tripathi retired from the Indian Civil Service and returned to Gorakhpur. He then entered into politics, contesting and winning the Gorakhpur-Faizabad graduate constituency in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council (MLC) for the first time (1967–1968). Re-elected in 1974, he served another term as an MLC but chose not to contest further elections. Tripathi died in 1988.